Exploring saving and spending game
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students play a game where they earn and spend money to learn how our choices affect how we’re able to save.
Learning about insurance
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students play a game where they do an action to match common types of insurance with the risks they cover.
Singing a song about saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students discuss the importance of saving money and sing a song about saving.
Meeting your future self
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5), Middle school (6-8)
Students imagine their lives in 10 years and write a fill-in-the-blank letter from their future selves to their current selves.
Exploring ways to protect what’s important to us
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students draw a picture and answer open-ended questions based on a story about protecting ourselves and our property.
Bouncing ball protection game
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1), Elementary school (2-3)
In a circle time activity, students answer questions about how we protect ourselves, our money, and our property.
Protecting what’s important
Ideal for: Elementary school (K-1)
Students analyze a picture and identify characters that are protecting something.
Making smart money trades
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3)
Students listen to a story about making money trades and determine whether the values of different groups of coins and paper money are equal or unequal.
Starting small and saving up
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students read a story about characters who save for something special and then create their own savings goal.
Puzzling out your savings future
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Using an origami children’s puzzle, students will choose an item, a time frame, and a dollar amount to determine how long they need to save before they can buy that item.
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These classroom activities can be completed within a single class period. Each activity comes with a teacher guide and supporting student material, so it’s easy to implement whether you’re an experienced personal finance teacher, integrating financial literacy into another subject area, or supplementing your existing financial education curriculum.
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